Marquise-Thérèse de Gorla

Marquise -Thérèse de Gorleben, better known as Mademoiselle Du Parc (* 1633 in Paris, † December 11, 1668 in Paris) was a French actress.

Life

She was the daughter of the revealing of Italian descent Giacomo de Gorleben, began her career as an actress and dancer in a small touring company in the province and then joined the larger and more well-known traveling troupe of Molière, as this has appeared in Lyon. 1653 she married an actor of the troupe, René Berthelot, sieur Du Parc, better known as Gros- René, who specialized in servant roles.

Mademoiselle du Parc, as it was now called, was visibly an attractive woman. So it was, for example, as the troupe has performed in Rouen in the spring of 1658, adored by the 52 -year-old, already famous tragedy Author Pierre Corneille and his younger brother Thomas poems.

After the troupe of Molière had settled late in 1658 in Paris, they managed to Corneille, the couple you poach Parc for their home theater, the Théâtre du Marais, but already in 1660, the pair returned back to Molière. Here is shone Du Parc, not least in the ballet sequences with which Molière began to garnish his pieces.

At the latest in 1665 ( her husband had died in 1664 ), she is dating with the young author Jean Racine tragedy, the Molière in 1664 and 65 his first two pieces (La Thébaïde and Alexandre ) had decreased and performed. As Racine broke the end of 1665 with Molière and the rival troupe of the Hôtel de Bourgogne zuwendete, she followed her lover there. With its impressive performance in the title heroine Andromaque she was not indifferent to the success of the same piece with which he scored his breakthrough in winter 1667/68.

Her sudden death under circumstances not entirely clarified (presumably as a result of an abortion attempt ) gave rise to speculation. In particular, Racine was suspected of having poisoned her.